I've been reading the amazing three-volume Alex Toth retrospective (Genius: Isolated, Genius Illustrated and Genius: Animated), and it is fascinating to see how he developed so many properties to be cartoon series on the small screen. Both Adam Strange and The Inhumans seem to me as though they would have been perfect candidates for this treatment. I can only imagine how cool animated shows featuring them would have been with the design work of Toth to help bring them to life.
Considering Adam has been given large clumsy jetpacks to use in more recent adventures i shudder to imagine what they would have done with him.If Space Ghost could lose the original shaped Phantom Cruiser for a "standard rocket job" like in Space Stars, then the "creative minds" would have just come up with a C-list character and called him a genius without proving his worth. Look what they did to Adam on Krypton via actor Shaun Sipos. Then again, look how many actors have played James T. Kirk or Flash or Spider-Man.
ReplyDeleteSpin the wheel and see what fate picks. goooodd luck!!
I do really treasure the Adam done in early Mystery in Space...and enjoy the thinker portrayed here too. One thing, If they have so many good scientists, why don't they have a mind projector that can project what Blacck Bolt is thinking when he presses his "on" button?
ReplyDelete@Det. Tobor: Those same "creative minds" ( I agree with your use of sarcastic quotes) would no doubt shift the blame. They'd probably say something like: "That's why we called it '...Multiverse of Madness.' The universes might be parallel. But, not everybody in them looks identical!"
ReplyDelete@Ross: I wonder if this ambush was the result of a Thanagar/Shi'ar alliance? After all, they are both bird-people (sort of).
Intriguing pairing. I'd like to see what happens next. What is this summit about? Maybe Blackagar and his subjects wanting to relocate to Rann?
ReplyDeleteVery nice team-up. Great job.
ReplyDelete@Carycomic: considering this morning's cover, your guess here might not be too far off the mark.
ReplyDelete@Cary: That parallel versions of the same person don't have to look identical was established in "Spider-Man: No Way Home". (Loki doesn't really count, since he's a shapeshifter.)
ReplyDeleteI know. But, I was referring to the misfortune of yet _a third_ actor portraying Reed Richards. Even if only in a cameo appearance! I would much rather have seen Ioan Gruffudd reprise the role. Or even (to a slightly lesser extent) Miles Teller.
ReplyDeleteP.S.---Wouldn't it be funny if the Bird People who raised the Golden Age Red Raven turned out to be Shi'ar/Inhuman hybrids?
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